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Question: Who does and has a family tree!?
ive gone way back to medieval times and have found out some really interesting things
are you doing anything and how far back have you gone and what have you found outWww@QuestionHome@Com


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I've been working on mine for some 30 years (before computer records were available!), tracing back the branches of the female lines as the names have cropped up, as well as my paternal line!. My "tree" is rather more of an oak tree than a poplar!
My paternal grandmother's was the most successful because it was a fairly unusual name and I have her ancestors back to the 1500's
My paternal grandfather's got stuck with a marriage in 1731 (I can't find it)
My maternal grandfather's is a problem only back to 1831 because I can't find a baptism for my Gt!. grandfather; I believe I know who his parents are, but a family legend suggests that they were family who raised him because he was an illegitimate child of another member of the family!.
I've bought every Birth!. Marraige and Death Certificate I can find back to the 1830s, so have a full record of everyone's official life!.
I have a convict sent to Oz in 1829, a murder, my grandparents' marriage was bigamous, river and canal boatmen, a boy who was interviewed for a Government Report about his life in a coal pit (he was 13 and had been working as a coal haulier for 4 years, he said the girdle didn't hurt him, he walked 4 miles to the pit and home every day and worked an 8-hour shift!. He'd learned to read and write a little at a Wesleyan Sunday School and earned one shilling a day (5 pence)!.
My ancestors were mostly from Devon, but I have a little Welsh and Scots and 1 French couple!.
I have a folder for every name, and every piece of information I can find filed in each in date order - photocopies of Parish Register entries, photographs of Churches where people were baptised and married, and headstones, pictures of where they lived, photocopies of the BMDs (the originals are all in safe) and in latter years, newspaper cuttings, achievement certificates, etc!. relating to each person!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

On my father's side, we've traced our family tree back to at least the 18th century!. On my mother's side, it's more difficult, since her maiden name is a very common surname, although we have traced it back some way!. My maternal grandmother's maiden name was Czech, so to trace that back, we'd have to go to Czech Republic, which would be quite a big thing to do!.

We found a few shot-gun weddings and ancestors dying in poor houses!. By the sounds of it, a lot of my ancestors lived in abject poverty!. I would like to know what happened to Czech relatives who stayed in the country, since they may well have been killed, etc!., in the Second World War!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I've been working on one for about two years now!. I was led to a book that was published in the early 1900s regarding one branch of my family tree!. It goes back to 1500s England and early colonial America!. Some of my ancestors were the founders of Connecticut according to this book!. It's pretty interesting!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

My aunts have, Lord Nelson of the British Navy is my great(x!?) grand father, or something like that!. and back to like you, mid-evil times when records are fricking rare!.

Nice Scooter by the way!.
I'm Building a Trike for traveling next yearWww@QuestionHome@Com

my family has a book which says a person, who they were married to and the sons they had!. I think ours goes back a minimum of 20 generations back!. The book is massively thick and is constantly being added to!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I have gone way back on various lines, I come from a long line of Miners and ag Labs, But I also have musicians, a sculptor and other odd people!.

I love my tree, and the workWww@QuestionHome@Com

I've only recently started mine and have gone back to the early 1700s so farWww@QuestionHome@Com

i dont Www@QuestionHome@Com